Certainly. I'll take a stab at that one.
We heard one of my colleagues mention that there are approximately 1.1 million SMEs currently active in Canada, which seems like a very large number. When you actually drill down into that number a bit and you look at the SMEs that are actually even interested in exporting—you can imagine a corner store operator, a hairdresser, or what have you—that number comes down to almost 50,000. It's 57,000, to be specific. Of that number, 40,000 have the means, as my colleague Susan was saying, to actually export. That's not just an interest but the opportunity to do that.
Of that 40,000 number, as of 2012, only 11,000 were exporting into emerging markets, which is where we see the high growth. The goal in the GMAP is to take that number, that 11,000, and over the five-year period of the plan to almost double it to 21,000. That's based on a calculation that was done at EDC—my colleague Peter Hall—looking at the regular growth we've seen in that segment of the population of SMEs, which saw them double about every seven and a half to eight years.
The challenge for all of us working together across the table here is to try to accelerate that and to try to double that 11,000 within a five-year timeframe.